Diana Tash

Ms. Tash made her Los Angeles debut recital at Zipper Concert Hall in April 2006 with pianist Armen Guzelimian, and at Los Angeles Opera as Mercedes in Carmen under the baton of Placido Domingo in 2004. Ms. Tash performed with San Diego Opera in The Magic Flute in May 2006 and in Opera Pacific’s 2008 Magic Flute. She will make her Weill Recital hall debut in October 2008 with Armen Guzelimian as pianist and will perform with Opera Pacific in 2009 in Salome. ~ Other notable performances have been with Long Beach Opera singing the role of Ariadne in L'Abandon d'Ariadne in Seven Small Operas as well as the role of Mastrilla in La Perichole. Ms. Tash covered the mezzo role in John Adam's El Niño for the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 2005. She performed at Los Angeles Opera as a resident artist and was seen in numerous productions including Elektra, Der Rosenkavalier, Le Nozze di Figaro, Un ballo in maschera, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, L'Italiana in Algeri and Cosí fan tutte. ~ At the Alderburgh Festival in England, Ms. Tash was featured in Elegy for Young Lovers and Rape of Lucretia. A popular oratorio singer, she has been featured at the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony in Lukas Foss' Song of Songs; at the Aspen Music Festival conducted by Lawrence Foster in Mozart's Idomeneo, and the Coronation Mass conducted by Joel Revzen. More recently, she performed the Bach Magnificat with the Santa Barbara Chorale Society in 2007 and will be performing with them again in the Mozart Requiem in 2008. ~ A native of Los Angeles, Ms. Tash is a graduate of USC's Flora L. Thornton School of Music and holds a Masters Degree from the Manhattan School of Music . She was a winner at the Metropolitan Opera's Western Regional Auditions, in addition to receiving numerous other awards.

Tenor and Bass